Species Aulacocyclus edentulus (W.S. Macleay, 1826)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Passalus edentulus Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annulosa. Catalogue of insects collected by Captain King, R.N. pp. 438-457 in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822; with Appendix B. London : John Murray Vol. 2 viii 637 pp., 9 pls. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [publication date 15 April 1826 Common, I.F.B. & Moulds, M.S. 1973. The date of publication of Captain King's narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6: 257–259 ("an initial small issue was published in the first half of 1826 and a second much larger issue in 1827")] [439].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Australia, no exact type locality specified.
• Passalus furcicornis Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insects nouveaux recueillis pendent de voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. In, D'Urville, D., César, J. S. (ed.). Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les annés 1826–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 7 716 pp. [242].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Port Jackson (as Port-Jakson), NSW.
• Passalus cylindraceus Percheron, A.R. 1835. Monographie des Passales et des genres qui en ont été séparés; accompagnée de planches dessinées par l'auteur, ou toutes les espèces ont été figurées. Paris : Mercklein iii 107 pp. 7 pls. [103].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, ?Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Hincks, W.D. & Dibb, J.R. 1935. Passalidae. pp. 1-118 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Lucanidae — Passalidae — Scarabaeidae I. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. XIX Pt 142. [9].
• Aulacocyclus terioides Kuwert, A.F. 1891. Systematische Übersicht der Passaliden-Arten und Gattungen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1891: 161-192 [170].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia (as Neuholland).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gravely, F.H. 1914. An account of the Oriental Passalidae (Coleoptera) based primarily on the collection in the Indian Museum. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 3: 177-353 [275]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults inhabit and feed on rotten wood.

 

General References

Mesa, A., Ferreira, A. & Martins, U. 1978. The chromosomes of an Australian passalid, Aulacocylcus edentulus Macl. (Coleoptera, Passalidae, Eulacocyclinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17: 385-388 (chromosome number)

Schuster, J.C. & Reyes-Castillo, P. 1981. New World genera of Passalidae (Coloptera): a revision of larvae. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Mexico 25: 79-116 (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)